Word: eleven
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Firm Purpose. The elections will be for the governors of eleven states, and are scheduled for next October. Until last week, most Brazilians expected Humberto Castello Branco's revolutionary government to postpone them for at least a year. Now the decision was to proceed-and it spoke well for his promise to hold a full presidential election...
...imported polo teams from abroad to lend glamour to the place, and put them up all winter at his expense. Once he had a great idea for a motorboat race-he built eleven boats, all exactly to the same specifications, and invited eleven of the best auto-racing drivers to race them, with the stipulation that they would not be allowed to practice or even get in the boats before the race. On the great day six of the boats sank in collisions, but the publicity contributed handsomely to the new resort's perennial aura of spectator glamour...
...death penalty (hanging) is now close to being abolished. In Europe, it survives only in France (guillotining) and Spain (garroting). Abolition has been slower in the U.S., but with the recent addition of Oregon, Iowa and West Virginia, the number of no-death-penalty states has risen to eleven. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Prisons reported a record low of 15 executions in 1964, compared with a yearly average of 167 in the 1930s...
...world's most technologized nation. In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories-four times as many as all the computers that exist elsewhere in the free world. Only eleven years ago, U.S. industry bought its first computer; today some single companies use as many as 200 computers...
...Concorde supersonic plane, which has been hit by heavy development costs and frequent controversy. In the short-range jet field, it got a head start with its sleek BAC OneEleven, of which it has sold 77, including 55 to U.S. lines. But the competition is overtaking the BAC One-Eleven. Douglas has sold 116 comparable DC-9s, including two last week to Australia's Ansett Airways. While Boeing has sold only 21 of its 737s, all were to West Germany's Lufthansa-an order that British Aircraft counted heavily on getting...